Poker Face Is a Case-of-the-Week Delight

The new murder-comedy Poker Face (on Peacock now) plays a very dangerous game indeed. It walks right up to the line of smugness, of tweeness—maybe it even puts a toe over the edge here and there—before it pulls back. The show is built, in some ways, as a testament to its own cleverness. Which should be irksome, and yet mostly isn’t. That’s a credit to the show’s creator, Rian Johnson, this year best known for writing a directing Glass Onion, and to its salty star, Natasha Lyonne, who wears the show’s quirky, hang-out energy like a comfy vintage suit. Lyonne… Read Full Article